Inspiring Teacher's Day Quotes to Celebrate Educators

"If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society's heroes."

- Guy Kawasaki

"One book, one pen, one child and one teacher can change the world."

- Malala Yousafzai

"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."

- Henry Adams

"The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you."

- BB King

"Every child deserves a champion; an adult who will never give up on them, who understands the power of connection and insists that they become the best they can possibly be."

- Rita Pierson

"In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn."

- Phil Collins

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."

- Anne Frank

"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."

- Arthur Ashe

"I saw as a teacher how if you take that spark of learning that those children have and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment."

- Paul Wellstone

"Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another."

- G.K. Chesterton

"The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil’s mind, and behold, all things are changed."

- Anne Sullivan

"Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents."

- Roger Moore

"Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Encourage and support your kids because children are apt to live up to what you believe of them."

- Lady Bird Johnson

"Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world."

- Malala Yousafzai

"The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don’t tell you what to see."

- Alexandra K. Trenfor

"If we don’t stand up for children, then we don’t stand for much."

- Marian Wright Edelman

"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theatre."

- Gail Godwin

"When you study great teachers … you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style."

- William Glasser

"Teaching is a calling too. And I’ve always thought that teachers in their way are holy — angels leading their flocks out of the darkness."

- Jeannette Walls

"The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, ‘The children are now working as if I did not exist.'"

- Maria Montessori

"I cannot teach anybody anything; I can only make them think."

- Socrates

"Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open."

- James Dewar

"I continue to believe that if children are given the necessary tools to succeed, they will succeed beyond their wildest dreams!"

- David Vitter

"Our children are the living messages we send to a future we will never see."

- Elijah Cummings

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

- Nelson Mandela

"Information may be free, an education is priceless."

- Marie Forleo

"Wherever you find something extraordinary, you’ll find the fingerprints of a great teacher."

- Arne Duncan

"Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school."

- Albert Einstein

"Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others."

- Brandon Mull

"If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you."

- Muhammad Ali

"Even if you're on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there."

- Will Rogers

"A teacher's job is to take a bunch of lives wires and see that they are well-grounded."

- Darwin D. Martin

"A teacher is a person who never says anything once."

- Howard Nemerov

"Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher."

- Japanese Proverb

"They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel."

- Carl W. Buechner

"It is the teacher that makes the difference. Not the classroom."

- Michael Morpurgo

"Great teachers empathize with kids, respect them, and believe that each one has something special that can be built upon."

- Ann Lieberman

"The secret in education lies in respecting the student."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts."

- C. S. Lewis

"To this end, the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher."

- John Strachan

"Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth."

- Helen Caldicott

"Teachers are people who start things they never see finished, and for which they never get thanks until it is too late."

- Max Forman

"What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?"

- Cicero

"Teachers can make such a profound impact on our lives and should be honored as heroes."

- Rainn Wilson

"A good teacher isn’t someone who gives the answers out to their kids but is understanding of needs and challenges and gives tools to help other people succeed."

- Justin Trudeau

"It’s the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom."

- Michael Morpurgo

"Invest in our teachers, and our children will succeed."

- Barack Obama

"If you look behind every exceptional person there is an exceptional teacher."

- Stephen Hawking

"A good teacher is like the rising sun that comes to fill the empty and dark minds with the light of the education."

- Anamika Mishra

"Some people change the world. And some people change the people who change the world, and that’s you."

- Kij Johnson

"If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people."

- Chinese Proverb

"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself."

- John Dewey

"We never know which lives we influence, or when or why."

- Stephen King

"[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are."

- Jim Henson

"Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today."

- Malcolm X

"Don’t just teach your children to read, teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything!"

- George Carlin

"If you fell down yesterday, stand up today."

- H.G. Wells

"We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone."

- Ronald Reagan

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."

- Henry David Thoreau

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

- Maya Angelou

"Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased."

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

"Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best."

- Bob Talbert

"Nine-tenths of education is encouragement."

- Anatole France

"I touch the future. I teach."

- Christa McAuliffe

"Teachers have three loves: love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together."

- Scott Hayden

"A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning."

- Brad Henry

"When educating the minds of our youth, we must not forget to educate their hearts."

- Dalai Lama

"Those who know, do. Those who understand, teach."

- Aristotle

"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge."

- Albert Einstein

"If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society’s heroes."

- Guy Kawasaki

"It's the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom."

- Michael Morpurgo

"The best teacher of children, in brief, is one who is essentially childlike."

- H. L. Mencken

"Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today."

- Malcolm X

"To teach is to learn twice over."

- Joseph Joubert

"Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them."

- Lady Bird Johnson

"The duties of a teacher are neither few nor small, but they elevate the mind and give energy to the character."

- Dorothea Dix

"The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away."

- Pablo Picasso

"The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running."

- Simone Weil

"Change is the end result of all true learning."

- Leo Buscaglia

"You can never be overdressed or overeducated."

- Oscar Wilde

"Being able to help someone learn something is a talent."

- Margaret Riel

"They may forget what you said — but they will never forget how you made them feel."

- Carl Buehner

"The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise."

- Maya Angelou

"For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to think independently and an ardent desire for the truth."

- Plutarch

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Intelligence plus character — that is the goal of true education."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The fact that you worry about being a good teacher, means that you already are one."

- Jodi Picoult

"There is no recipe to be a great teacher, that's what is unique about them."

- Robert Sternberg

"It is not what is poured into the student but what is planted that counts."

- E.P. Bertin

"If you can dream it, you can do it."

- Walt Disney

"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Being a teacher is not what I do, it's who I am."

- Jill Biden

"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."

- Wayne Dyer

"The world is changed by your example not by your opinion."

- Paulo Coelho

"Learning never exhausts the mind."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference."

- William James

"You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives."

- Clay P. Bedford

"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul."

- Joseph Addison

"You can teach a student a lesson for a day, but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives."

- Clay P. Bedford

"Teaching is the greatest act of optimism."

- Colleen Wilcox

"A good teacher is like a candle—it consumes itself to light the way for others."

- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

"You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it."

- J.D. Salinger

"Every child deserves a champion—an adult who will never give up on them, who understands the power of connection and insists that they become the best that they can possibly be."

- Rita Pierson

"The dream begins, most of the time, with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you on to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called truth."

- Dan Rather

"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires."

- William A. Ward

"Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace."

- Confucius

"Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire."

- William Butler Yeats

"Teaching is more than imparting knowledge; it is inspiring change. Learning is more than absorbing facts; it is acquiring understanding."

- William Arthur Ward

"What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches."

- Karl Menninger

"Children must be taught how to think, not what to think."

- Margaret Mead

"If kids come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important."

- Barbara Colorose

"What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child."

- George Bernard Shaw

"The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery."

- Mark van Doren

"If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around."

- Jim Rohn

"A teacher affects eternity. They can never tell where their influence stops."

"Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions."

"To teach is to touch a life forever."

"A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others."

"The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book."

"Teachers plant the seeds of knowledge that grow forever."

"The influence of a good teacher can never be erased."

"A good education can change anyone. A good teacher can change everything!"

"Teachers who love teaching, teach children to love learning."

"Teaching is a work of heart."

"It takes a big heart to shape little minds."

"Children learn more from who you are than what you teach."

"My teacher gave me the best gift of all… Believing in me!"

"To the world, you may just be a teacher, but to your students, you are a hero. Happy Teacher's Day!"

"You are the reason I developed a passion for learning. Thank you for everything, and Happy Teacher's Day!"

"Thank you for being not just a teacher but a mentor and a friend. Wishing you a very Happy Teacher's Day!"

"Happy Teacher's Day! Your wisdom, dedication, and kindness will always lead us on the right path and inspire us to be better human beings."

"Every child is gifted. They just unwrap their packages at different times."

"Teachers are those who help find strengths, wipe away tears, overpower demons and conquer fears."

"To the most amazing teacher, Happy Teacher's Day! You deserve all the appreciation in the world for your hard work and commitment."

"Thank you for making learning fun and exciting. You've instilled in me a lifelong love for knowledge. Happy Teacher's Day!"

"The lessons you've taught me extend far beyond the classroom. Your impact on my life is immeasurable. Happy Teacher's Day!"

"You've always gone above and beyond to help us learn and grow. Your dedication is truly inspiring. Wishing you a very Happy Teacher's Day!"

"Dear Teacher, your belief in me has always been my guiding light. Thank you for shaping me into the person I am today. Happy Teacher's Day!"

"Happy Teacher's Day! Your guidance and support have shaped my future in the best possible way."

"Teaching is the one profession that creates all other professions."

"Students don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care."

- Anonymous

"It takes a big heart to help shape little minds."

- Unknown

"Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind."